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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

Benjamin Carson

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Accomplishment People Reading
I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
BENJAMIN CARSON

God Please Purpose Serving
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball
Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Normal Special
It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one’s beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Freedom Practice Religious
I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Cities Patient Strong
Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can’t talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Real School Thinking
Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Book Library Reading
If you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Bumper Fair Own Something Triple
What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone’s health. It’s not only a feeling that I’m worth something, but that I have something to contribute.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Able Feelings Restoration
What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, “they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us”.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Attitude Brotherhood Land
There’s no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it’s going to open up for you.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doors Knowledge Things Useless
Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Billion Everybody Pay Proportional Taxes Way
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Home Names Opponent People
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Clothes Hang Long School Wanted
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Life Still Valuable

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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